Table of Contents
Checklist For Sick Children: 2 MTHM- 5 YRS ............................................................................................. 11
Checklist for Infants: less than Months .......................................................................................................... 12
Paediatric Rules ................................................................................................................................................. 13
Anaemia .............................................................................................................................................................. 16
Asthma ................................................................................................................................................................ 20
Babies – Born Before Arrival (BBA) ............................................................................................................... 23
Babies Less Than 2.2kg Weight ........................................................................................................................ 24
Babies – Neonatal Infections ............................................................................................................................. 26
Babies – Drug Doses: For babies less than 4 weeks of age ............................................................................. 28
Breast Feeding .................................................................................................................................................... 32
Burns and Scalds ............................................................................................................................................... 34
Child Abuse ........................................................................................................................................................ 36
Child Sexual Abuse and Rape and Treatment ................................................................................................ 37
Colds and URTI ................................................................................................................................................. 39
Conjunctivitis ..................................................................................................................................................... 40
Convulsions ........................................................................................................................................................ 41
Diarrhoea ............................................................................................................................................................ 44
Fever ................................................................................................................................................................... 57
HIV Infection ..................................................................................................................................................... 58
Immunisation ..................................................................................................................................................... 63
PNG Immunization Schedule ........................................................................................................................... 64
Lymph Gland Enlargement .............................................................................................................................. 66
Malaria ............................................................................................................................................................... 67
Malnutrition ....................................................................................................................................................... 75
Measles ................................................................................................................................................................ 85
Medicine For Mothers To Take Home ............................................................................................................ 86
Meningitis or Severe Sepsis .............................................................................................................................. 87
Milk Mixtures .................................................................................................................................................... 91
Oedema (swelling) .............................................................................................................................................. 93
Osteomyelitis, Septic Arthritis and Pyomyositis ............................................................................................. 94
Otitis Media - Acute .......................................................................................................................................... 95
Otitis Media - Chronic ...................................................................................................................................... 96
Pertussis (Whooping Cough) ............................................................................................................................ 98
Pigbel ................................................................................................................................................................. 101
Pneumonia or Bronchiolitis ............................................................................................................................ 102
Poisoning ........................................................................................................................................................... 108
Resuscitation .................................................................................................................................................... 110